But I like the dark places also.

. This novel terrified me in the sense that there were times I didn’t feel like I was writing it at all. And really the ending of this particular book says: There is no end. It’s interesting to me how different countries have completely different covers. It is one of the year’s best novels.”—Taylor Antrim, The Daily Beast “[McCann] both resurrects and redeems the horrors of Sept. 11, creating a metaphorical landscape of human endurance in the face of unspeakable tragedy. Welcome back. meet a group of women who gather regularly to share their grief over

But I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

when a car sideswipes the van he is driving, returning to the South . And when I say research, what I really mean is when you go off and live, as best you can, what you’re writing about. And for Let the Great World Spin, I did a fair amount of research—I went out in New York with homicide detectives, chatted with folks in the Bronx, dug through piles of rap sheets, spent time with computer hackers, that sort of thing.
There is It’s set in Israel, unless, of course, it ends up in Detroit or Spokane.

Right now I’m busy digging into a new novel. . Colum McCann: I suppose the great dream of this writing lark is that the books continuously get newer and deeper and stronger. He looked at me strangely, as we are friends and we’d been corresponding a long time, and he said, “England, of course.” And I said in the most ridiculous way, “I know, I know, I know, but where are you from from?” He smiled that big smile of his, those eyes of his. . There’s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.”—Dave Eggers “In his own gritty and lyrical voice, Colum McCann has lifted up a handful of souls to the light in this big-hearted, adroit and probing novel, and brought forth a spectrum of the painful, the beautiful and the unexpected.”—Amy Bloom “Every character grabs you by the throat and makes you care. . . In the end, it’s a novel about families—the ones we’re born into and the ones we make for ourselves.”—USA Today “The first great 9/11 novel . It was as if he led me by the hand and said, “I want you to meet this woman, Tillie. Do you want to talk about the various worlds you walk us through? Part of the joy of writing, as you know, is that we cast the boat out from the shore without any clue when, or if, we’re going to be able to hit land.

I’m not interested in telling people what to think, but I do hope that I’m allowing them a new space in which to breathe. There are a couple of things hopefully headed out into the world. There is grief and there is love and they spin together in this human body, which is, in itself, also a book. CM: You’re allowed to ask, but only if I ask you first. NE: Let’s talk about this alleged ‘light,’ Mr. McCann, and where it comes from. Hungry, exhausted, filthy, vivacious, everything this lovely city is.

NE:Me? I also chatted with the sandhogs who built the tunnels. As writers we have to respect and like our readers.

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